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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

Category
People

If you can connect people, you can create the future.

Scott Heiferman

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Augustus De Morgan

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Roger Penrose

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Otto von Bismarck

I think in the future some of our major problems will be solved by people with asperger's.

Tony Attwood

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Terry Pratchett

When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.

Trish in the film "Educating Rita", after her suicide attempt

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

Jarod Kintz

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

A children's book that can't be equally be enjoyed by adults is not a very good children's book.

Stevenvh

A friend is someone who listens to your bullshit, tells you that it’s bullshit and then listens to more of your bullshit.

unknown

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

Ricky Gervais

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: “I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.”

Jim Al-Khalili

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.

On a T-shirt

If you hear voices in your head you are insane. Unless you say it's gods voice. Then you are a chosen one.

Youtube comment

Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

Kaleel Jamison

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H.L. Mencken

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

H.L. Mencken

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H.L. Mencken

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H.L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

H.L. Mencken